Instead of being driven to change the world -- the mission its best
employees signed up for -- a key focus now for Ballmer is "process
excellence," which seems unlikely to inspire Microsoftees to stay up all
night creating the Next Big Thing.

One thing really bad about being so process driven: it's totally thinking
and working inside of the box and empowers folks who aren't leaders but who
can really raise a stink when someone decides to color outside of the lines.
That's bad stuff. That does not lead to innovation and wake-fields of
creativity but rather keeps the big huge, bloated crew on a steady course to
mediocrity.

Disclaimer

These are sole individual personal points-of-view and the posts and comments by the participants in no way represent the official point-of-view of Microsoft or any other organization. This is a discussion to foster debate and by no means an enactment of policy-violation. These posts are provided "as-is" with no warranties and confer no rights. So chill. And think.